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The Emporia => In the wardrobe => Patterns Discussion => Topic started by: Tamnymore on May 05, 2021, 17:52:27 PM
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Paging @UttaRetch! :D
Find them here (https://somethingdelightful.com/butterick/new-sewing-patterns/summer/)
I'm afraid they look pretty dull to me. No Katherine Tilton offering. I'll be waiting to see what Vogue has to offer for the summer.
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I looked. :scream:
I don't know that I'll ever buy another pattern.
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Hmmm.
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Look on the bright side at how much we'll all save on patterns :boohoo:
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Alas, that doesn't seem to work @BrendaP ! I'll just indulge in more expensive Vogue patterns. :laughing:
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There's a big discussion on this on patternreview as apparently several of those patterns aren't 'new' but reissues of Palmer Pletch patterns from McCalls. McCalls are going for a younger demograph and so are shifting some patterns over to Butterick.
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@Tamnymore: I followed the discussion on PR about these patterns and didn't bother to post them here since 14 out of the 19 "new" patterns are old McCall's.
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Yes I saw some posts on McCall's FB site about the 'old' patterns in the Butterick summer release. Wouldn't have thought they would win over many customers with such an approach!
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"Old" McCalls from the sixites? A lot of them look like things my mother would have worn back then, so I won't be buying them.
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If McCalls/Butterick were more explicit about what they were trying to do they would be much more effective in bringing their pattern buying customers along with them rather than p*ss*ng them off with what looks like a deliberately sneaky move. I've read the discussion on pattern review now and there are certainly some clever pattern sleuths there. And I've realised I have one of those patterns when it was McCalls.
It does make some sense to focus ranges on different demographics but I would have thought that alongside younger women who perhaps don't have kids (yet) although likely to be working, quite a few of their customers are older with more time to sew and sometimes more disposable income so they can surely keep us all happy!
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There's a big discussion on this on patternreview as apparently several of those patterns aren't 'new' but reissues of Palmer Pletch patterns from McCalls. McCalls are going for a younger demograph and so are shifting some patterns over to Butterick.
Thank you @realale I was looking at B6850, which I have and did think to myself, I could have sworn that was a Palmer Pleitch. I quite fancied it but then decided I didn't like the neck it would have to change and maybe it might make my hips look big.
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I immediately recognised three patterns that were formerly McCalls, in particular
(https://i.imgur.com/h93fJgm.jpg)
from which I made two things. It is now
(https://i.imgur.com/166RYIS.jpg)
The McCall's went to the charity along with a lot of other patterns.
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A bit boring, well a lot boring really, I do quite like the beige trousers though but I've got a slightly better one from vogue which is probably why I like it but it's years old :|
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Oh YAWN. when I saw these i thought they seemed like good everyday core patterns and clothes but what sets them apart? Now I read they are just reissues of other patterns... No wonder.
Also some of the tops look so shapeless. It's not that I don't like wearing drapery loose tops but... Just don't know what I'd really be paying for.